ISRAEL: The Watchman

Out of the concentration camps, ghettoes, banks,
courtrooms, theaters and factories of Europe the Chosen People had assembled
and had won their first great military victory since Judas Maccabeus*
beat the Syrian Nicanor at Adasa 2,109 years ago.

Their success has been hidden from the world by U.N. maneuvering and by a
confusing war of a hundred skirmishes with real battles. Although, in
years to come, fighting might break out again & again, its probable pattern
was "fixed: the Jews were too tough, too smart and too vigorous for...